dink - self-titled

label: capitol records
released: 1994

consolidated
skatenigs
nitzer ebb
post LA SEXORCISTO white zombie

knowwhatimean?

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baby chaos - safe sex,designer drugs & the death of rock 'n' roll

label: eastwest
released: 1994

for the most part...listening to the radio was pretty ok back in the 90s

it had it's moments

listening to this will bring back memories of cruising the ol' fm dial back in the day

and it may even shake lose a long lost memory of the time you and your friends were taking one of your random road trips...and (insert friend's name here) was in charge of controlling the radio...and one day...for whatever reason...he let 10 seconds of (insert shitty 90's band song title here) get played...and you then proceeded to pull the car over and made him get in the back....maaaaaaan was he steamed....

but i digress

don't let the comparing of this band and music found on the radio scare you off

this too has it's moments

i'd originally bought this on cassette when it came out (though i don't rightly remember why)...and ever since then...the first 22 seconds of the song "saliva" have been stuck in my head

it also brings to mind some soundgarden and some therapy?

and you like those things,yeah?

so yeah....

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z - shampoohorn

label: barking pumpkin records
released: 1994

who here hasn't sat in the bathtub and thought "hey...it would be pretty sweet if i were a unicorn"...and then you twirl up your shampooed hair into horn...and then the wife/husband/mom/dad walks in and gives you a thank-god-that's-where-all-the-shampoo-is-going look and then leaves with a sigh of relief...never happened to you?...yeah...me neither...

but you know...there are various variations on the shampoohorn....there's the shampoo fauxhawk...the shampoo abraham lincoln's beard...the shampoo merkin...

but i'm not here to discuss what it is you do in private with your shampoo

i remember sitting up late one night years ago and seeing the video for the song "in my mind" from this very album (one of the two times it probably got played on the mtv)...and i just remember sitting there wondering what it is i saw/heard...and for the following week i'd always go back to look for the video...but alas...nothing (something tells me that mtv waited for me to get up to use the bathroom...sneaky sumbitches)...and then i looked for the album in music stores...and yet again nothing

fast forward 15 years...and i'm sitting in front of this very computer...and for some reason i'm looking through some youtube crap...and i came across something ahmet and dweezil zappa did on the conan o'brien show....and after watching that over and over and over again...i remembered this band...and the hunt was on...and to make a not so exciting story short...i was finally about to have it...and of course...i'm going to share it with the rest of you

as mentioned before...the band is made up of ahmet and dweezil zappa (ahmet provinding vocals...dweezil providing guitar) and at one time frank zappa bassist scott thunes (replaced by bryan beller) along with a succession of drummers...and what comes out of the process sounds like something that could possibly happen had frank zappa listened to one too many early red hot chili peppers albums (sans the rappy vocals...and i'm gonna say it...this pretty much beats anything in the early rhcp catalog...that's right)

so do yourself a favor and snatch this up...and i can see you eyeballing that shampoo bottle...so...go on...get outta here you crazy kid

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leaders of men - 2.25.11 - 89.9 wort - madison,wi

yesterday would've been ian curtis' birthday

so...what better reason to post this business

"and what is this business exactly?"

well...you may recall that once upon a time there was a band called the united sons of toil

and the fellas also had a little side project going on that went by the name of...you guessed it...leaders of men

yes...that's the title of a joy division song

so...as you can probably guess...they played joy division covers

vocalist/guitarist russell hall was bernard sumner

drummer jason jensen was stephen morris

bassist bill borowski was peter hook

and then there was a fella that goes by the name of chris vance...he was ian curtis (uncannily so)

this was something the band had done while promoting the united sons of toil album WHEN THE REVOLUTION COMES,EVERYTHING WILL BE BEAUTIFUL

so...if'n you're of the ilk that likes it when bands become other bands and actually sound so much like the band they're becoming that you start asking yourself if you're actually listening to the band that the band became...

1 - colony
2 - a means to an end
3 - disorder
4 - transmission

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p - self-titled

label: caroline records
released: 1995

this is kind of an odd pairing...gibby haynes and johnny depp (and some other guys)

apparently they'd met while mr. depp was filming WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE...and then eventually they were all like "you know what,man? let's jam"

and jam they did

and then they got folks like flea...the sex pistols' steve jones...and andrew weiss (rollins band) to show up here and there

and i think they had a video that was shown on the mtv a time or two (though i may be wrong about that)

the band has the distinct infamous-ity (yeah...it's a word) of playing the viper room the night river phoenix was having a seizure just outside on the sidewalk (he died a few hours later)...and all of this went on whilst the band were in the midst of playing their song "michael stipe" (the song includes a few mentions of river phoenix)

musically...this sounds like just about everything else that was popular andalternative at the time

but you should still snag it up

so go on...do it

DO IT

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rollins band - 6.3.87 - mississippi nights - st. louis,mo

some guy that sang for black flag once doing something post black flag and not really sounding like black flag

1 - band intro
2 - black and white 
3 - what am i doing here?
4 - burned beyond recognition
5 - lost and found
6 - followed around
7 - there's a man outside
8 - ghost rider (1)
9 - move right in (2)
10 - lonely
11 - hot animal machine 1
12 - what i see (3)
13 - if you're alive
14 - you look at you
15 - mask/hot animal 2
16 - no one
17 - next time
18 - happy trails (4)

1=suicide cover
2=the velvet underground cover
3=black flag cover
4=dale rogers cover

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melvins - alive at the fucker club

label: amphetamine reptile
released: 1998

there is no such place as the fucker club...but we've put in some paperwork for there to be

if anything...if may just end up being the name we give the basement at the SGM house

in reality...this took place in melbourne,australia at a place called the corner hotel on august 23,1997

they opened for the cosmic psychos

also...this is probably the most epic version of "boris" you'll ever hear (outside of actually seeing it performed live)
1 - boris
2 - it's shoved
3 - bar-x the rocking m
4 - antioxidote
5 - the bloat
6 - lizzy
7 - mombius hibachi



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shellac/fugazi - 5.8.98 - congress theater - chicago,il

indie boner jams '98

shellac: 
1 - my black ass 
2 - billiard player song 
3 - wingwalker 
4 - the watch song 

 fugazi: 
1 - sieve-fisted find 
2 - arpeggiator 
3 - smallpox champion 
4 - give me the cure 
5 - waiting room
6 - rend it 
7 - f/d 
8 - long distance runner 


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Gravitar - You Must First Learn To Draw The Real

Label: Monotremata
Year: 1999

Two guitarists and a drummer. Opening track is a 10+ minute instrumental excursion into some very noisy "easy listening". Improvisation appears to be encouraged. Feedback as well. Probably have record collections heavy on what is often described as "free jazz". Most likely have some weird prog rock and spacey metal albums in there too. Most likely drew their biggest crowds in towns with prominent art schools...Providence, Rhode Island comes to mind.

The band counted at one time Harold Richardson, guitarist from Negative Approach/Easy Action as a member.

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Milemarker - Anaesthetic

Label: Jade Tree
Year: 2001

Keyboards are a sticky wicket in the post-hardcore game. A band like The VSS used them to channel the original post-punker noise and add a sheen of disquieting macabre. A band like Murder City Devils used them to give a jolt of 60's soul wild to their bar rock. A band like Arab On Radar used them as another layer of chaotic noise to further distort their attack. Lesser bands used them as window dressing, after thoughts that could just as easily have been left out of the original composition.
Milemarker didn't rely on them, so much as use them as a second guitar tone, but for their call-and-response type male/female vocals it works. On the less aggressive songs, songs like "Food"...eh, doesn't work out so well. But maybe that's not the keyboard's fault. When it all clicks, Milemarker make some of the best, catchy, post hardcore, and when it doesn't click, they make fairly bland synth pop. Luckily it clicks more than not.

Members from Hellbender, Canadian Rifle, Challenger, Sleepytime Trio, Auxes, Hurl, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and others.

Remember when Jade Tree was Axtion Packed Records, and Tim Owen used the money from advance orders of the Even Score 7" to buy an Acura? Those were simpler times.

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